Sir,
Indian Network for people living with HIV/AIDS, a national network of
people living with HIV and the State Level Networks of people living with
HIV, Manipur, Nagaland, Goa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West
Bengal Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and the Positive Women
Network wish to bring your notice the following shocking facts.

Sri. T.A. Majeed, proprietor of Fair Pharma, who is not a doctor qualified
or trained under any system of Medicine whatsoever set up false claims
of having invented / discovered a guaranteed cure for HIV/AIDS. He organized
a wide publicity network for his false claims of curing HIV/AIDS within
100 days course of the medicine that he calls Immuno-QR. A single course
of the medicine is sold for Rs. 8,400/-.

The members of our organization, who are persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS,
taken in by the wide publicity and the tall claims made by Mr. T.A. Majeed,
took the medicine Immuno-QR on the assurance that it will cure them of
the disease HIV/AIDS. They found that the medicine Immuno-QR did not work.
A number of persons who were held out as the persons who had been cured
after taking Immuno-QR have since died.

The Maharashtra network for positive people, a constituent of the INP+
in the state of Maharashtra filed a writ petition seeking to prevent Mr.
T.A. Majeed from publicising in any manner whatever his medicine Immuno-QR
as a cure for HIV/AIDS. The Honourable High Court of Bombay issued an
interim order prohibiting Mr. T.A. Majeed from claim a cure for HIV/AIDS
through advertising in all types of media.

In spite of the order of the High Court of Bombay, Mr. Majeed continued
to publicize the medicine Immuno-QR as a guaranteed cure for HIV/AIDS.

It has also come to our notice that in order to create a substantial
market for his medicine Mr. Majeed has developed tie-ups on commission
basis with unscrupulous laboratories and doctors who falsely diagnose
persons who come with some minor ailments as suffering from HIV/AIDS and
direct them to take Immuno-QR. After one or two courses of the medicine
i.e. after making the victims spend about Rs. 20,000.00/- as the medicine,
the same laboratories give them a certificate of having been cured of
HIV/AIDS.

The disabilities of people living with HIV/AIDS to combat the menace
of the quackery helped Mr. Majeed spread his tentacles into every area
including the authorities of the government and administration of the
Justice.

Over the years, since the governmental and statutory authorities closed
their eyes to the activities of the Majeed mafia, Mr. Majeed became the
highest taxpayer of the Kerala with his ill-gotten gains.

The collusion of laboratories giving false certificates also led to a
situation where the disease itself started spreading. The alarming situation
created by the illegal activities of Mr. Majeed was brought to the notice
of many umbrella organizations by us. One of such organizations the PUCL,
Kerala filed public interest litigation before the High Court of Kerala
O.P. No. 37990 of 2001 seeking direction from the Court for a C.B.I. inquiry
into the whole affair and to prevent Mr. Majeed from manufacturing and
selling drugs/medicine, as cure for many incurable diseases including
HIV/AIDS

The High Court of Kerala took the case on file and on behalf of Majeed
it was pointed out that he himself had filed another writ petition O.P.
No. 12883 / 98 challenging the cancellation of his license to manufacture
Immuno-QR. The High Court there upon called for the said writ petition
also and after hearing counsel passed an interim order restraining Mr.
Majeed from Manufacturing and selling any medicine claiming it as a cure
for any of the diseases specified in the J schedule to the Drugs and Cosmetics
Act.

Mr. Majeed challenged the order before the Supreme Court and the Supreme
Court upheld the ban of manufacture of Immuno-QR. This was on 11.3.2002.
In the public interest litigation Mr. Majeed had set up a number of persons
claiming themselves to be sufferers of various incurable diseases like
HIV AIDS, mental retardation, Alzheimer’s disease and other similar
diseases who filed affidavits claiming that they had taken the medicine
Immuno QR and had been cured of all the diseases or were in the stage
of improvement. Enquiries revealed that the various persons set up through
different advocates have all been set up by Sri. Majeed himself paying
even the fees of the counsel appearing for such fictitious persons who
claimed to have cured after taking the medicine Immuno QR. This fact also
became clear before the court since none of these persons who claimed
the necessity of the medicine Immuno QR appeared before the Government
authorities for taking medicine pursuant to specific orders passed by
the High Court of Kerala on 09.07.2003.

In fact, on an earlier occasion, the High Court on 30.10.2002 made the
interim order as modified by the Supreme Court as absolute and rejected
the prayer made by certain alleged sufferers of HIV/AIDS for supply of
Immuno-QR.

Once the High Court had made an interim order prohibiting the manufacture
of the medicine, absolute, the only thing that remained to be done is
to clear the original petitions and pass appropriate orders. Since the
earlier interim order had been made absolute, no fresh interim order could
have been passed by the High Court. It is of interest to note that after
the matter at interlocutory stage was disposed of by the Supreme Court,
the case continued in the hearing list on a regular basis and it was not
taken up for hearing because Mr. Majeed and his advocates were never ready
to go on with the case.

In the Original Petition filed in public interest espousing our cause
(the cause of PLWHAs) the Union and State Governments as well as all the
Central and State authorities concerned with the Health and Family Welfare,
as well as the various national institutes for Research in Virology and
the Governmental organizations for AIDS Control were made parties. In
view of the use of money power by the manufacturer of the medicine, the
Central Bureau of Investigation was also made a party. Out of these governmental
and statutory authorities only the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research)
filed a counter affidavit in the O.P. The said counter affidavit clearly
stated in no uncertain terms that the claims of cure for HIV AIDS made
by Sri. Majeed is not correct. None of the other authorities filed a counter
affidavit or even appeared before the court, though the Central Government
and its organizations have tens of standing counsels in the High Court.

Even while the order of the Supreme Court banning the manufacture of
Immuno QR was in force, Sri. Majeed continued to manufacture and sell
the medicine (at more than twice the original price). When the violation
of the court order was brought to the notice of the Drugs Control authorities
the raids were conducted on the premises of Fair Pharma (Mr. Majeed’s
business concern) and substantial quantities of medicine Immuno QR being
sold under surrogate names to People living with HIV/AIDS and records
relating to the said sales were seized by the authorities. The raid was
conducted by Drug Intelligence Department on February 6, 2003 and on February
19, 2003. Even after this, the authorities did not bring to the notice
of the High Court, the details of the raids and did not produce before
the court the records seized during the raids.

The State Government appointed a committee to conduct clinical study
on the medicine Immuno QR in 1998. The committee was a non-starter. This
points to the economic tentacles of Mr. Majeed which have gone deep into
the governmental system whichever party rules the state or the country.
Being the highest tax payer in the State, Mr. Majeed has also been successful
in greasing the palms of the politicians and administrators. No work was
done by the expert committee appointed by the Government though the said
committee had been appointed five years ago.

It is in this back drop that the High Court has now without considering
any relevant factor passed an order permitting Mr. Majeed to manufacture
and sell Immuno QR. On the strength of the said order Mr. Majeed has started
advertising that Immuno QR has been permitted to be manufactured and is
now available.

The permission of the Court to manufacture and sell Immuno QR without
first conducting clinical trials and publishing results, has granted the
seal of approval for the claims of Mr. Majeed that Immuno QR is a guaranteed
cure for HIV/AIDS with in 100 days.

We bring to your notice that two days before the case was taken up on
25.08.2003, Mr. Majeed had appeared on T.V. and stated publicly that the
High Court would permit him to manufacture Immuno QRand this is what in
fact happened.

The people living with HIV/AIDS therefore wish to bring to your notice
that the present order of court would enable Mr. Majeed to continue to
cheat sufferers of the HIV/AIDS by promising cure and also result in spreading
the disease.

The inaction from the Government in getting Immuno QR properly tested
and clinically assessed during the last decade when Mr. Majeed has been
claiming guaranteed cure indicates the extent to which money power has
enabled Mr. Majeed to influence the ministers, top officials in the government
and the statutory authorities.

As is well known it is when the authorities in the Government and administration
fail that the sufferers of injustice approach the courts of law in the
fond hope that the wheels of justice will move and bring succor to them.
The present order of the court has belied the ardent hope and faith of
the persons suffering from incurable diseases like HIV/AIDS in the legal
system. We therefore beseech your Good selves to recall the present order
permitting Mr. Majeed to manufacture and sell the medicine, Immuno QR.

The claims of Mr. Majeed also affects the prevention programs adversely
as it sends in a false sense of hope of cure for millions. This fuels
the spread of the epidemic, which also counters the prevention programs
done by the Government. So we request you to completely ban the production
and sale of Immuno QR and prosecute Mr. Majeed whose claim is putting
thousands of lives of people living with HIV/AIDS at stake.

Sincerely
Indian Network for People living with HIV/AIDS, India
S/d, K. K.ABRAHAM